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I must admit, a screw makes me happier ( as it were! ) The nosepiece / clamp combo seems solid - I've had a Qhy268m with QHY 7 slot filter wheel hanging from it with no issues and it gives me nice round stars across the field on long exposures.
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usually the cooling starts for me pretty much as soon as i turn it on via the equipment/camera section ( QHY268m and ZWO 533mc Pro ). there can be a difference between brands in terms of the power increase curve.
Silly thought - is the camera connected via something like a pegasus astro connection box - maybe that needs to be active in NINA before the cam can communicate? ( mine cams are and it does need to be on first ) -
the Stellamira ones dont use a screw connector like the official Starfield one, they have a 2" nose piece that is clamped in place by the scope. the M48 / M42 connector is on the camera side of the adaptor. On the plus side, it makes it very easy to rotate the camera as required and i havnt had any issues with loosening or movement.
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Ive been using both the Starfield adjustable 0.8x reducer and the Stellamira flattener with my 102ED - both are great and have never caused me problems.
I do keep eyeing up the 0.6x reducer from Stellamira - i think i might have a go on one of these this week.- 1
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my experience of this happening with my EQ6R-Pro is that it is usually down to incorrect values in the system.
I have seen incorrect values resulting from gps data when using a mobile - its probably worth double checking what other sites says these values should be and comparing them.- 1
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is 2 a possibility with WBPP ? ( I'll give it a try tomorrow and find out )
i did find the clear cache button tonight, so i gave that a press just in case. -
ive taken a few subs tonight with the L and R filters. It looks like they are behaving as expected - Images taken with L are brighter than with R given the same exposure time.
If the weather gods allow, I will redo the R and L subs + calibration frames tonight and try a fresh set of processing. I think this is starting to look like the problem is in software land - maybe a bad cache or incorrectly labelled images. -
you are not the first person today to suggest that maybe the L and R are swapped - im about to give that a test. ( i have confirmed the filters are in the right order in the FW and NINA labelled them so its not human error )
the integration times and amount of subs are the same across all channels, with each having their own set of calibration frames.
it seems that for some reason it took 2 hours to platesolve - im assuming because of the over saturation. ( no idea why though )
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ooooh, its my first post.... Hello! ( long time lurker, regular reader, hoarder of good things from FLO )
So I have dived into monochrome imaging - I'm shooting on a Qhy268 m with Antlia V-Pro LRGB filters and in this case im using a Starfield 102.I have stacked and processed the L,R,G and B channels separately in Pixinsight using the Weighted Batch Preprocessing script. I'm getting no rejected frames and each channel has its own set of calibration frames. L,G and B each take around 15 mins to process, but R takes closer to 2 hours.
The following image shows the result of these stacks with a single STF applied to make them visible. As you can see, the R channel ( top right ) is really oversaturated which obviously doesn't work well when I combine the LRGB. I've tried rerunning WBPP but the result is always the same.
Any thought or suggestions? Am I missing something obvious in Pixi or could it be something more fundamental like a back to front filer ? ( they are 36mm unmounted )
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A QHY5III200M. It will be the guide camera for my Edge 9.25 and maybe occasionally get pointed at a planet.
I think its the final "must have" on my setup ive been building over the last 12 months ( ignoring the ever growing "wish list" of course )